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The White Lotus Rebellion (Chinese: 川 楚 白 蓮 敎 起 義; pinyin: Chuān chŭ bái lián jiào qǐ yì, 1794–1804) was a rebellion initiated by followers of the White Lotus movement during the Qing dynasty of China. Motivated by millenarian Buddhists who promised the immediate return of the Buddha, it erupted out of social and economic ...
White Lotus Rebellion, (1796–1804), large-scale uprising in the mountainous regions of central China that contributed to the decline of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12). The White Lotus society (Bailianjiao) was a religious cult already in existence in the Nan (Southern) Song dynasty (1127–1279).
The White Lotus was a fertile ground for fomenting rebellion. The White Lotus doctrines and religious observances, particularly their "incense burning" ceremonies which in the popular mind came to typify them, merged with the doctrines and rituals of the Maitreyan sectarians; that produced a cohering ideology among rebel groups, uniting them in ...
White Lotus Rebellion. The White Lotus society (Bailianjiao) was a religious cult already in existence in the Nan (Southern) Song dynasty (1127–1279). When the Manchu tribes of Manchuria (now Northeast China) conquered China some 500 years later in the 17th century and proclaimed the Qing dynasty, the White Lotus….
White Lotus Rebellion, Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Ch'ing dynasty. It broke out (1796) among impoverished settlers in the mountainous region that separates Sichuan prov. from Hubei and Shaanxi provs.
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe White Lotus War (1796-1804) in central China marked the endof the Qing dynasty's golden age and the fatal weakening ...
The White Lotus rebellion began when large groups of Chinese rioted in 1794. Eventually, the rebellion was crushed by the Qing elites; but the White Lotus organization remained secret and intact, and advocated for the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
Bailianjiao 白蓮教, the White Lotus Sect, was a millenarian movement with Buddhist traditions that several times in history ignited large-scale popular uprisings against the ruling dynasties.
With _The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China_, Yingcong Dai provides the definitive history of a key juncture in the trajectory of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
In her impressive new book, Dai Yingcong sets out to entirely change our understanding of the 1796 White Lotus rebellion. With regard to the conduct of the war, she largely succeeds. In the first five chapters, Dai narrates the arc of rebellion and suppression.